Billiard-table leveler



(No Model.)

T. EUBANK.

BILLIARD TAB LE LBVELER.

Patented Sept. 25, 1883.

I w e I U ITED STATES 'OATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS EUBANK, OF GIRARD, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ROBERT A. WILLETT, OF SEDALIA, MISSOURI.

BlLLlARD-TABLE LEVELER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 285,739, dated September 25, 1883.

' r Application filed -March 27,1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS EUBANK, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Girard, in the county of Macoupin and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Billiard-Table Levelers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to an improvement in piano, billiard, or pool table jacks or levelers; and it consists of the combination and construction of parts substantially as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

a In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my jack applied to the leg of a billiard-table or piano. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same with the leg broken away.

A is a piano, billiard, or pool table leg.

B is a plate, suitably fastened to the lower end of the leg A, and having a cavity or socket, a, in its under side, said socket being preferably formed in a slight downward extension of said plate.

O is a foot or base, which may be ornamental in contour, and having an aperture, b, ex-

- tending through for the passage of a screw.

7 without undue friction. The screw D has also D is a screw, with its upper end bearing in the cavity or socket a in the under side of the plate 13, it being rounded and made smooth thereat to enable it to readily revolve therein a transverse aperture, 0, through it for the reception or insertion of a lever, to enable it to be revolved.

E is a square'nut, set into a correspondinglyshaped socket, d, made in the upper end of the base or foot 0. Through this nut the screw D also passes, the nut directly supporting the screw, and as the latter is revolved by the lever the leg of the table or piano is raised or lowered, as may be desired, and according to the direction of movement imparted to thelever, which is inserted in socket C.

By use of the metallic nut E, let into a correspondingly-shaped socket provided in the upper part of the wooden base or foot 0, the latter may be readily adapted to any billiard.-

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namented the foot thereof may be, without impairing the beauty and effect of that part of the table.

The chief object of my invention is to produce a billiard-table leveler, which may be adapted and applied, not only to all billiard table legs hereafter manufactured, but to all such legs as have been already manufactured. Hence it will be observed that by use of the metallic nut E, let into the correspondinglyshaped socket provided in the upper part ofthe wooden base or foot 0, the foot may be sev ered from the leg and the device then be readily adapted to any billiard-table leg, however handsomely carved and ornamented the foot thereof may be, without impairing the beauty and effect of the table-leg.

In applying my device 'to ordinary billiard I table legs it is only necessary to sever the leg transversely just above the foot 0 and to rigidly secure to the bottom of the upper piece of the leg thus severed the plate 13, having therein the cavity or socket a for reception of screw D, and to provide socket d in foot 0 for reception of nut E, all of which can be readily done without marring the beauty and effect of a carved foot. In this connection I would state that I am aware of the patent of L. A. Hunt of April 7, 1874, N 0. 149,401, which I disclaim.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters In a billiard-table leveler, the combination, with the plate B, aflixed to the lower end of the table-leg, and having a cavity or socket, a, apertured foot or base G, having an angular socket, d, aperture b, nut E, let or set into socket d, and screw D, having transverse aperture 'G, substantially as shown, and for the purpose described. 7

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS EUBANK.

Witnesses:

S. M. Coor, VIcroR WooLLY. 

